@skiff open sourced their cryptographic library "including useful functions for symmetric encryption, asymmetric encryption, hashing, and more. Contributions and suggestions are welcome!"
Feel like I’m very much a minority voice on here that appreciates how Apple is a privacy protecting company compared to its competitors. I’m not the hard-liner zealot that dominates this space who practices the Stallman dogma even though I’m a fairly well-known privacy zealot. You can reply-guy me till you’re blue in the face but you’re not changing my mind on this.
@profcarroll I also appreciate that aspect of Apple.
Yesterday watching the WWDC keynote, I joked with someone that if you had played a drinking game with a drink for every time an Apple presenter mentioned "encryption" (or "privacy"), you would have been quite drunk by the end! Pretty much EVERY presenter mentioned it at least once.
And this is great! Because it is such a major company talking up the positive value of #encryption and why it is needed for security and privacy.
This is a request to all FOSS projects who only use matrix for communicating with the community.
Please consider bridging your rooms with IRC or XMPP.
India has banned Element, the most widely used Matrix client. I know it's just a client, but to be safe it's wiser to stay away from matrix for a while. So please help us in this regard.
IMO, the Surgeon General's scaremongering over kids and social media is part of an anti-encryption push by world authorities.
If the powers that be convince the public that social media harms kids, they can establish a system where internet users must identify themselves under the guise of proving they're not children.
Some people don't see the value of using a password manager and keep sharing their streaming service passwords with their friends and relatives in plain text.
This is an attempt to simplify the process of sending encrypted passwords for non-technical users, using local encryption with temporary #PGP keys.
For all the strength of feeling on here about the need for #privacy and #encryption, remarkably few #uk people have signed the petition on the official government website (the only petition site the government pays attention to) against the new #OnlineSafetyBill (misnamed, given it makes things less safe for minority communities). Please, if you have yet to sign and can do so, please do! https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/634725#ukpol
Twitter was not great but at least there was one place, a place of record. Now there are at least 3 and posting to all feels like pissing in the wind. Where do we go from here.
Yes, sure, the internet is ‘open’ but as we’ve all experienced : quickly embraced by #SiliconValley#VC corporate interests who centralized & commercialized all human experiences and interactions it enabled.
Decentralized federated services is the right path and there’s ample device compute power in consumers hands but we need resilient Tech & Commercial models that easily blends / bridges private (#E2EE#encryption) and public (open) spaces – otherwise we're fucked.
How Do Different #Encrypted Messaging Apps Treat Deleted Messages?
A feature of various end-to-end encrypted ( #E2EE ) messaging apps and other non E2EE social media messaging are disappearing messages, which automatically delete after a set period of time #privacy#encryption
Hurra! Das Thema #Chatkontrolle und #verschlusselung geht dank #Spanien in die nächste Runde. Laut geleakter Dokumente wird sich Spanien für ein EU-weites Verbot von #EndezuEndeVerschlüsselung einsetzen. Da wird das #eugh als letzte Instanz sicherlich viel Arbeit vor sich haben.
It's not possible to protect children by banning their privacy, breaking #encryption or putting a backdoor into online services, which realistically, can be exploited by anyone. That is not protection, it's the opposite.
Unbelievable double-think happening here. The UK government is going full-throttle in its war on encryption, with the Online Safety Bill the vanguard in exposing the security of everyone's device.
Encryption protects us from cyber-criminals, keeps our messages private, and stops governments and corporations from spying on us. It is online safety for kids and everyone.
@EwanCroft AFAIK re: the #ActivityPub protocol, what we can direct messaging thanks to birdsite language is really just a one-to-one post. Even if #Mastodon established #E2EE#encryption over AP, it's unlikely to federate well at this stage. Perhaps better to keep #Matrix as the #Fediverse go-to for that?